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On 3/14/2016 1:57 PM, Anita Kuno wrote:
> On 03/14/2016 02:46 PM, Matt Riedemann wrote:
>> Hi everyone, this is my announcement to run for Nova PTL in the Newton
>> cycle.
>>
>> First off, I see the Nova PTL role as a service position to the rest of
>> the team. The job of the PTL is to organize the release schedule, help
>> people coordinate and do a lot of the administrative work with the
>> release team and other project teams to try and keep things as smooth as
>> possible for developers to do what they do best, with as little
>> distraction as possible. Given Nova's maturity and existing strong
>> technical development team, I see the PTL now as less of a technical
>> overlord and as more of a manager, and that's how I'd try to work.
>>
>> I've noticed more sub-teams organizing within Nova in the last cycle or
>> two and really want to continue to foster that model. For example, there
>> were dedicated sub-teams around priorities like cells v2, live
>> migration, notifications and the scheduler. Those sub-teams were holding
>> regular meetings and bringing forth issues and status to the broader
>> team as necessary. I think this makes those priority efforts more
>> productive since we work better when focused for shorter
>> periods of time on specific goals.
>>
>> John did a great job of fostering others to own parts of the work via
>> CPLs, the bug triage team, and bringing up potential nova core
>> additions. I want to continue that work since I think having different
>> people in these roles helps them grow within the project and the
>> community. I'd like to also get Nova more involved with the operator
>> community, which probably starts with a CPL attending the operator
>> meeting and bringing back news to the Nova team. It amazes me how much
>> we still generally work in silos and don't effectively community issues
>> across groups of teams and I want to make that better.
>>
>> Which brings me to my main focus for Newton, which is cross-project
>> priorities. There are several items that need to make progress in Newton
>> to move not only Nova but other projects forward. These include:
>>
>> * Get-me-a-network (Nova/Neutron)
>> * os-vif integration (Nova/Neutron)
>> * os-brick + privsep integration (Nova/Cinder)
>> * Volume multiattach (Nova/Cinder)
>> * Glance v2 integration (Nova/Glance)
>>
>> We also have to continue moving forward with Cells V2 and the scheduler
>> / resource tracker work. We already have sub-teams/owners for a few of
>> these items but some are going to require renewed focus, and as PTL I'd
>> be working with other projects on setting up plans/goals on how to
>> accomplish these in Newton and then communicating those back to the
>> broader team so we can all be on the same page. I loved seeing the
>> status updates in the mailing list toward the end of Mitaka and want to
>> continue seeing that type of communication.
>>
>> We need to do _something_ about the release scheduling for blueprints,
>> meaning priority and non-priority, and also having time at the end to
>> stabilize and get bugs fixed. We spend a lot of time reviewing specs
>> (like most of the first milestone), then non-priority features, and
>> finally trying to sprint on the things we said were priorities but we
>> for some reason schedule to work on at the end of the release, when
>> every is tired and time is short to make big changes if necessary. I
>> think we need to flip that somehow so that priorities actually get
>> treated like priorities early in the cycle and have focused effort
>> by the core team.
>>
>> And last but not least, QA is always a special focus of mine because if
>> the gate is busted or we're landing busted code for a lack of testing,
>> it doesn't really matter what else we do. That's why we need to get a
>> Ceph job back voting reliably on Nova (and Cinder/Glance), along with a
>> trunk libvirt job we've been talking about since Kilo - which will also
>> feed into a dedicated live migration job. So as PTL those would be
>> things I'd want to help move forward.
>>
>> If you've made it through all of this, thanks and congratulations!
>> Regardless of the election I plan to do my best to serve the project and
>> the people working on it in Newton.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Matt Riedemann
>>
>>
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> Hi Matt:
>
> I'll ask this on the list as it is the first question that occurred to
> me while seeing your announcement and I'm probably not the only one with
> this question.
>
> You are currently the PTL of the stable team. What is your intention
> regarding the stable team?
>
> Thanks Matt,
> Anita.
>
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Good question Anita, I've sent out a separate email on that [1].

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http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2016-March/089289.html

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Thanks,

Matt Riedemann